Q&A: Ransomware is now a ‘fully fledged industry’, says cybercrime journalist Geoff White
Brief
Cybercrime no longer divides neatly between lone hackers, organised gangs and state-backed operations. These groups exchange tactics and tools, while stolen data gives them an asset that can be sold, used for fraud, held to ransom or weaponised for political damage.
Geoff White is an award-winning investigative journalist whose reporting has taken him inside global hacking networks, cryptocurrency thefts and modern money-laundering operations.
A former Technology Correspondent for Channel 4 News, he has also reported for the BBC and The Sunday Times. Geoff co-created and presented the BBC World Service podcast The Lazarus Heist and has written three books on cybercrime and organised crime.